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The APS Board seeks applications for a new Executive Director to begin in late 2015 or early 2016. This search is initiated following Founding Executive Director Alan Kraut’s announcement that he intends to step down from his APS position by the end of 2015 after 27 years of service. Read the full posting here.

Volunteers are sought to "re-imagine" the SPSP Convention. A Task Force is being created to review alternative programming formats, scheduling opportunities, and other options to enhance the SPSP Convention experience. To be considered to serve on the task force, click here.

The Foundation for Personality and Social Psychology invites nominations for the Heritage Initiative Wall of Fame. This initiative recognizes senior scientists who have made distinguished contributions to Personality-Social Psychology during their career, and whose nomination is supported by contributions to the Foundation's dissertation grants program.

The Foundation for Personality and Social Psychology (FPSP), in collaboration with SAGE Publications, has announced the SAGE Young Scholars Awards 2015 recipients. The awardees receive a one-time award of $5,000 to be used at their discretion for research, study, or conference travel-related purposes. Five awards are presented each year to young scholars representative of the broad spectrum of personality and social psychology research areas.

The enormous APA convention is not often the first conference that personality and social psychologists think about when they strategize about where to present their research. There is a perception that only practicing clinicians attend APA. While it’s true that the crowd is heavily clinical, there is also lots of great personality and social psychology that takes place as well. At the 2014 convention, our division put on talks by Jamie Pennebaker, Wendy Wood, Phillip Zimbardo, Rebecca Shiner, Brian Nosek, Keith Humphreys, and many others. There were symposia on implicit attitudes, emotion regulation, climate change, and personality development.